Handouts for Module 1 Introduction to Ethics (original) (raw)
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A Philosophical Inquiry into the Fundamental Issues with the Meaning and Nature of Ethics
Igwebuike: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2020
The concept of ethics is often an object of misconception, misinterpretation and mismatching with other terms like morality, value and aesthetics in philosophy especially among undergraduate students of Arts and Humanities. It is evident that a good number of them are sometimes confused when it comes to the definition and meaning of ethics, its differences from the notion of morality and the relationship between the two in moral philosophy. There are those that do not know why there are various ethical theories and justification for them in the society that cherished such ethical theories. Again, there are young learners who desire to know the similarities, differences and relationship between normative and meta-ethics. Therefore, this paper is concerned with the definition and meaning of ethics, the differences between meta-ethics and normative ethics, the differences between ethics and morality, the significance each plays in the understanding of ethics and implications inherent in their relationship with one another. Besides, the paper also gives a general survey of special ethics to young and curious minds with reference to various professions that are growing up in leap and bound of our contemporary society.
[Sample syllabus] Ethics Before and After Morality
This course is an introduction to some major themes in metaethics. Metaethics, in the context of this course, is centrally a critical reflective attempt to make sense of normative ethics, which in turn can be understood as an attempt to offer some general, theoretical account of our ethical thought, talk, and action. Normative ethics has traditionally taken, and today still typically takes, the form of a philosophical enquiry into morality. What we shall scrutinise in this course is the nature and the possibility of such an enquiry, or as I shall call it, moral philosophy.
Ethics: The Key Thinkers (2nd edition)
Ethics: The Key Thinkers (2nd edition), 2023
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A REFLECTION ON ETHICS AND MORALS (Atena Editora)
A REFLECTION ON ETHICS AND MORALS (Atena Editora), 2022
Ethics is a factor that governs the behavior of good people and that contributes to the evolution of a society because it aims at the common good; This way, it brings benefits to societies in which people base their behavior on it. It induces a person to behave in a straight line that helps to overcome the influence of emotional factors, which interfere with decision-making and individual and group performance, it also prevents that person from practicing acts contrary to practices aimed at the common good in a society. Morality can be conceptualized as the set of principles, norms or rules of behavior considered correct by a whole society, at a given time, being the result of its historical-social evolution. Globalization is based on the integration of markets and the deepening of transactions due to the great ease of communications. Economic barriers were being deactivated and the interdependence of markets intensified between economic blocks and between companies from different countries. Currently, groups of globalists are acting strongly to destroy ethical and moral values that are some of the most important pillars of societies in all countries.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
From Plato to MacIntyre, my edited collection surveys the history of Western moral philosophy by guiding students new to the subject through the work and ideas of the field's most important figures. With entries written by leading contemporary scholars, the book covers such thinkers as: Plato [by myself]; Aristotle; Thomas Aquinas; David Hume; Immanuel Kant; J.S. Mill ; Friedrich Nietzsche; The book explores the contributions of each thinker individually, while also building a picture of how ethical thought has developed through their interactions. The book includes guides to the latest further reading on each thinker.
Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics
2019
We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others’ behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition. It considers basic questions about moral and ethical judgment: Is there such a thing as something that is really right or really wrong independent of time, place and perspective? What is the relationship between religion and ethics? How can we reconcile self-interest and ethics? Is it ever acceptable to harm one person in order to help others? What do recent discussions in evolutionary biology or have to say about human moral systems? What is the relation between gender and ethics? The authors invite you to participate in their exploration of these and many other questions in philosophical ethics.